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Bill's Color Changing Wand
A red wand with silver tips changes color to a green wand with silver tips just by running it through your hand.
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What you will need is shown in figure 4. You will need a 360 animal balloon. You can buy these at Walmart or a party supply store. They are the balloons you use to twist animal balloons. Any color is fine. In the picture I show two balloons to illustrate color choice; you only need one. You could change your wand from a colored wand to a clear wand But Bill Jackson came up with a cool idea. if you have a hollow wand you can put a craft pipe cleaner in it...custumizing your wand to whatever color you want.
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Ok, you will need to cut the end off a balloon. You now have a latex tube. put it on the wand lining it up with the silver tips. A very little amount of dishwashing soap may help slide it on, But then you need to let it dry after wiping the soap off. The lip of the balloon will make it easy to roll the balloon up as you push it through your fist. Then your thumb and index finger will hide the rolled up balloon when you display it after the color change.
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Bill's Pen to Wand
You tell everyone you haven't a wand but your pen has always made a good wand. So you roll it up in a Hanky. when you unroll it it has changed into your magic wand.!
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You will need your wand, and opaque (non-see-throughable) hanky ( a bandanda is great) and a bic or paper mate style pen. Place the wand on the table before your audience arrise and lay your hanky over it like in figure 7 an 8. Place your pen on the hanky like in figure 8. (Bill is touching the wand in figure 8 to show you where it is. Don't do that in performance.) In figure 9 Bill ghas folded the whank over diagonally being carefull not to show the hidden wand..
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In figure 10 you see the wand and penn being rolled into the hanky. Practice this so that you get to the point where you don't flash then hidden wand. Once it is rolled up find the upper most flap of the hanky (figures 11 and 12). Take that flab in yout left hand and the lower flab in your left hand (figure 13)and begin to pull them apart.Do this slowly.
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When the bundle is unrolled the wand is now on top (figure 14) and the pen is hidden under the hanky. Don't show the pen. Just pick up the wand and do a trick with it.
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Bill's Wand Through Hanky.
You take a wand and push it through a hanky.Even after the spectator taps the wand through the hanky proving it was really under it the wand still penetrates the hanky without damaging the cloth.
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Hold your wand like in figure 1 and place a hanky over it as in figure 1 and 2. In figure 2 it is obvious the wand is really under the cloth. Even let someone feel it.
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In figure 3 you see the wand is being grabbed by Bill through the cloth. In reality (figure 5 and 6 and 7) Bill isn't grabbing the wand. he is just grabbing the hanky, pretending he has the wand. as his other hand tilts the wand back out from under the cloth and back up along the back OUTSIDE of the hanky. Figure 8 shows how he wraps the cloth around the wand right before he pushes it "through" the cloth. Really it's just slding along a crease up out of the top.
